Re: WIP: Access method extendability

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WIP: Access method extendability
Date: 2014-10-28 20:17:57
Message-ID: CA+U5nMLDyKwRvc1oFHX95prR_HRMazvjxv-V6+hvTwSD-dA3nw@mail.gmail.com
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On 28 October 2014 17:47, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2014-10-28 17:45:36 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> I'd like to avoid all of the pain by making persistent AMs that are
>> recoverable after a crash, rather than during crash recovery.
>
> Besides the actual difficulities of supporting this, imo not being
> available on HS and directly after a failover essentially makes them
> next to useless.

Broken WAL implementations are worse than useless.

I'm saying we should work on how to fix broken indexes first, before
we allow a crop of new code that might cause them.

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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

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